STONHAM (ASPEL), a parish in the hundred of
BOSMERE-and-CLAYDON, county of SUFFOLK, 5 miles
(N. E.) from Needham-Market, containing 633 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of
Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the Icing's
books at £19. 10. 2., and in the patronage of Sir W.
Middleton, Bart. The church is dedicated to St,
Lambert. In the churchyard is a fine, though mutilated,
monument of alabaster to the memory of
Anthony Wingfield, Esq., whose statue is represented
in a recumbent posture, grasping a serpent. Here
is a free school, founded about 1574, by the Rev. John
Metcalf.